2014 Artist Alley Art Compilation

In 2014 I had an artist alley table at five different anime and pop-culture conventions, all held in Melbourne. Unlike in 2013, I had my artist table mostly all to myself this time. I spent a lot of time drawing fanart for trading, but also took up a one year graphic design course in 2014. So, due to time constrains, I didn’t draw as much as I planned, but here are some of the artworks and designs I made for trading that year.

Art prints of Ruby Rose and Blake Belladonna from the web series “RWBY”.

Chibi-style art prints of Ciel from Black Butler, Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin, Usagi from Sailor Moon, and Gon & Killua from HunterxHunter.

Traditional drawings of Levi from Attack on Titan, and England from Axis Powers Hetalia.

These were made with black fineliner pen and watercolour. The few times I actually used watercolour and it came out not bad, though I won’t start calling myself a watercolourist anytime soon. (ʘ‿ʘ)

[1-3] Italy, Germany & Japan from Hetalia, [4-6] Miku, Rin & Gumi from VOCALOID,
[7] Naruto, [8] Luffy, [9] Ichigo.

The above are chibi illustrations I made for turning into bookmarks (right side). These were the start of a series of chibi bookmarks that I drew and expanded upon between 2014 to 2016.

All of the above digital illustrations were created using PaintTool SAI with a Wacom tablet and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop. They were originally posted on DeviantArt and I eventually took them down later.

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My Artist Alley Tables

I didn’t take as many photos of my tables as I did in 2013, but here are the ones I did take.

Other conventions I had an artist table at (but no photo) are:

• CHAOz Con – Aug 2014
• Animaga Expo – Sep 2014
• Armageddon Expo – Oct 2014

Armageddon Expo was the only convention I shared my table with another artist Enixyy, who I shared a table with at the exact same convention in 2013.

Overall, my experience trading my art at conventions in 2014 was still quite fun. I never did hit it big and I had room for improvement, but I wanted to continue this path a little longer and kept going into the next year in 2015.

2014 Graphic Design Compilation

A few design projects I did for my one year graphic design course in 2014. I did a large variety of different design projects, a lot of which were typography heavy, but there were some illustration work that I did and quite enjoyed.

This illustration was created using watercolour and coloured pencil. It was for a design project where I was to illustrate a book cover for a novel, and I chose the book “Northern Lights” by Philip Pullman. I’ll admit, this was not my best colouring work. (╥﹏╥)

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Alice in Wonderland bookmark design and pencil sketches.

This was a design project for a promotional bookmark design for ‘Alice in Wonderland’. I decided to draw the Mad Hatter with the White Rabbit. I was quite happy with how this one came out. The final bookmark was created entirely in Adobe Illustrator.

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This was a design project for a promotional post card for the 2016 Australian Jamboree event. I drew the illustration in Adobe Photoshop and did the post card layout in Adobe Illustrator. The art was purposely made to look sketchy to make it feel teenage friendly.

These illustrations were originally posted on DeviantArt and I eventually took them down.

2013 Artist Alley Art Compilation

After graduating from my animation course, I decided that animation wasn’t really for me, or rather I didn’t want to pursue it professionally anymore. Instead, I decided to go the direction of trying to make a business out of my hobby for drawing anime-style art and it took a serious turn to drawing more fanart for conventions in 2013.

I went to four different anime and pop-culture conventions held in Melbourne and had an artist alley table at all of them. Three out of the four tables, I shared a table with another artist. Here are some of the artworks I sold during these conventions.

Art prints of China & Chibi Japan, N.Italy & S.Italy, and Russia from the webcomic “Axis Powers Hetalia”.

Several of the above illustrations were created using PaintTool SAI, a drawing software that I used often in 2013 because it worked better with my wacom tablet, and some were created using Adobe Photoshop.

Chibi pencil drawings of Ruby, Weiss, Blake & Yang from the web series “RWBY”.

All of the above fanart illustrations were originally posted on DeviantArt and I eventually took them down later.

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My Artist Alley Tables